Water · Leak detection
A water bill that doubled is a leak that has been running for a month.
Finding hidden leaks in Rhode Island homes, in slabs, walls, ceilings and underground service lines, with meter tests, pressure isolation and moisture and thermal readings, so the repair opens one small hole rather than a wall.
Repairing a leak you can see is straightforward. Finding one you cannot is the skill, and it decides how much of your house gets opened up to fix it. Water leak detection is the work of narrowing a problem from "somewhere in the house" to a spot the size of a hand, before anyone picks up a saw. Done well it means one small, deliberate access hole. Done badly it means exploratory demolition billed by the hour.
The order matters, because each step rules out half of what is left.
Post-war ranches and split-levels across Rhode Island were plumbed in copper under the slab, and that copper is now sixty or seventy years old. A slab leak announces itself as a warm patch, a rising bill or water at the edge of a floor, and the wrong response is to start breaking concrete. We pinpoint it from above first, then open the smallest patch of slab that reaches it, or reroute the line overhead when the rest of the run is failing too.
The pipe from the street to your foundation is yours to maintain, and when it leaks the only visible sign is often a green stripe in a dry lawn or a bill nobody can explain. We locate the leak from the surface and repair or replace the line by excavation. It is the same crew and the same digging discipline as our sewer line work, applied to the supply side.
A marked location, photographs, a written finding you can hand to an insurance adjuster, and a flat quote for the repair. The two are quoted separately on purpose, so you are never paying for detection that was really a guess.
How a rescue works
No phone tree, no callback queue. Describe the problem and we dispatch the nearest tech, same-day for most calls, immediately for emergencies.
The tech diagnoses on site, walks you through options, and quotes flat pricing before any work begins. You approve, or you don't. No surprises on the invoice.
Stocked vans mean most repairs finish in one visit. We protect floors, wear boot covers, and leave the space cleaner than we found it.
Workmanship is guaranteed and every tech is licensed and insured in Rhode Island. If something isn't right, we come back. That's the whole policy.
No phone tag
Four fields, no account, no spam, a dispatcher reads it and calls you back. Emergency? Skip the form: (401) 601-5040 is answered 24/7.
Signals received
"We called SOS for a leaky fixture, and they were quick to respond. Came right out and replaced gaskets instead of the whole fixture. Another plumber quoted over $1000 before they saw what we needed… we will call them again if we ever need anything."
"I had a saddle valve fail at 10pm and couldn't get the drip to stop at the leak. I got an instant and informative call back… Good advice, kind people, solid work and reasonable prices. This is a great company, highly recommended."
"SOS Plumbing gets a 5 Star review and I will be using Jacob and Nathan again. If you need a really good plumber, start here!!"
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Good questions
Moisture readings, pressure isolation and thermal signatures narrow it down before we cut. The goal is one small, deliberate access hole in the right place, not exploratory demolition, and we show you the reading that put it there.
Check your meter with everything off. If it is moving, water is going somewhere: often a slab leak, a running toilet flapper, an irrigation line or the underground service line. We isolate which on the same visit, starting with whether the leak is inside the house or between the house and the street.
The meter test puts it inside the house, pressure isolation puts it on a line that runs under the floor, and thermal imaging usually shows the warm trail if it is a hot water line. Only then does anyone consider opening concrete, and we open the smallest patch that reaches the pipe.
Yes. If the meter keeps moving with the house shut off at the main valve, the leak is in the service line. We locate it from the surface so the excavation is one hole in the right place, and repair or replace the line.
It should not, and that is the point of doing it. Detection is readings and tests, not cutting. The one access hole comes at the repair stage, once the location is known, and it is as small as reaching the pipe allows.
Often the resulting damage is covered while the pipe itself is not, and policies vary. What helps most is documentation: where the leak was, what caused it, when it was found and what was done. We provide all of that in writing, formatted the way adjusters expect.
Available across Rhode Island
We serve every town in Rhode Island. These are the ones with their own pages, see every service area.
